Erin: [Nodding] Grandma always joined us with her homemade biscuits.
D) she and the members of her court "adopted" acting companies, letting them use her name and operate under her protection.
A run-on sentence is a sentence having two independent clauses with improper punctuation and without conjunctions. The correct answer is option b. It is difficult to understand a run-on sentence because you cannot identify where to pause or stop and that the sentence does not have conjunctions which would help in the transition of clauses.
The only word I'm seeing that could be an adjective is the word "old".
(Correct me if I'm wrong, thanks!)
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Shakespeare was born in 1564.